Not sure... But it looks like your /etc/hosts is at fault...
it should read something like this:
127.0.0.1 baglady localhost
That should fix it, one would think...
Otherwise, you have no localhost address...
That's why it says:
"# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail."
That should probably say "Do not remove the localhost part or the
IP address otherwise nothing will be able to connect the the 'localhost'
address. Lots of different applications need to do that." or something.
;)
> My question...So what's the problem with lpd? Where is it getting this
> localhost stuff? I've read the man pages but no go. Everytime lpd
> starts, I _get_ the following:
>
> [root@baglady log]# /etc/init.d/lpd start
> Starting lpd: 2003-07-04-18:31:12.250 baglady Get_local_host:
> 'localhost' IP
> address not available!
[snip]
> Running cat /etc/hosts
>
> [root@baglady log]# cat /etc/hosts
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1 baglady
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